Swiss Global Artistic Foundation

"Solenne Païdassi has won the Baltic International Violin Competition... She won because of her very intimate style of interpretation and her spontaneous, unprompted joy in playing music. She also demonstrated richness of sound and wide dynamics from subtle piano to full-size romantic forte" -- The Strad Magazine, February 2008

French violinist Solenne Païdassi has been awarded many prizes in France and abroad, including the Audience Prize and Best Rendition of the Imposed Work Prize at the Waldo Mayo Memorial Competition in New York in 2004, and 3rd Prize at the Sion-Valais Competition 2006. In 2007 she won 1st prize in the Second Baltic International Competition in Poland, 2nd prize in the Gyeongnam Competition in Korea, as well as 1st prize and Prize for the Best Interpretation of a Piece by Lysenko at the Lysenko Competition in Ukraine. She has been broadcast by the Deutschlandradio Kultur and the NDR Kultur radiostations. She plays a Lorenzo Ventapane violin from 1795, awarded by the Deutschen Stiftung Musikleben Hamburg.

Ms Païdassi has extensive experience presenting recitals and concerts all over the world, in countries such as France, Switzerland, Korea, Germany, Poland, Mexico, Italy, Ukraine and the USA. She has performed in Tonhalle Zürich and Carnegie Hall in New York, as well as participated in numerous festivals such as the Festival International du Jeune Soliste in Antibes, the Festival International de Sion Valais, the Festival "Beethoven!" in Hannover, the Festival de Musique Sacrée in Nice, the International Holland Music Sessions and the Tongyeong International Music Festival. As a soloist she has performed with the Czech Virtuosi Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, the Senior Concert Orchestra of New York, the National Lithuanian Orchestra and the Korean National University of Arts Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of such conductors as Eric Lederhandler, David Gilbert, Shlomo Mintz, Martin Brauss and Jacek Błaszczyk. Upcoming concerts include performing with the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra and the ensemble Viva Musica Hannover, among others. Part of "New Masters on Tour" from The International Holland Music Sessions, she will take part in an international concert tour in the 2009-2010 season, playing in such renowned halls as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

After graduating from Geneva Conservatoire de Musique, the Royal Academy of London and the Curtis Institute of Music, Ms Païdassi obtained a Künstlerische Ausbildung Diploma from the Hannover Hochschule für Musik und Theater. She has been a student of Jean Pierre Wallez, Maurice Hasson, Joseph Silverstein, Pamela Frank, Viktor Danchenko and Krzysztof Wegrzyn. She has participated in master-classes in Europe and the United States with Pierre Amoyal, Regis Pasquier, Gerard Poulet, David Cerone, Viktor Tretjakov, Silvia Marcovici, Wanda Wilkomirska, Krystyna Jurecka, Lewis Kaplan and Nam Yun Kim.

Ms Païdassi is currently 24 and resides in Hannover. She is an active member of the ensemble "Il Gioco col Suono", and the recipient of the Yehudi Menuhin: Live Music Now Scholarship.

Further information about Solenne Païdassi may be found at her personal website, www.solenne-paidassi.com.